Re: Genie...is it worth it?

[kindall@falcon.ic.net (Jerry Kindall)]

Tony Ward (tward@interaccess) wrote:
: Jawaid Bazyar (bazyar@netcom.com) wrote:
: : >Old 
: : >versions of programs are removed when new versions are uploaded.  

: :   Sometimes this is a bad thing!

: GEnie staff (me, in this case) never deletes old versions unless the 
: author requests it. We (I) try to stick to this policy.

Whoops... foot in mouth.  (I am the person who posted the note about 
getting rid of old versions, although I'm not attributed.)

: : Genie: lots of people chatting about the Apple II, except you can't
: :        choose what topics you want to read. You either read them all, or
: :        you have to ignore entire categories.

: Not true. You can permamantly ignore topics within categories that you 
: aren't interested in, or ignore entire categories.

Furthermore, you can mark JUST the topics you want to read, and then read 
those (instead of reading everything BUT the ones you don't want to 
read).  Very flexible if you want to follow only a few topics in a few areas.

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: Tony Ward                |
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: a2.tony@genie.geis.com   |

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